So… Anticipating it’s a serious opinion (god knows why):
A mirror match is a good way of learning your own character, learning how you’ll be countered, your own weaknesses. The only “danger” about it, is you might find out you didn’t know as much about your char as you previously thought.
I’m usually picking Blanka and love all the stuff he can do, but never realized his potential until some mirror matches.
How are we supposed to win anything, when we don’t even know the dangers of our own char? “Go search youtube, nab!”. Meh.
Dunno about the rest of the world, but I sure learn a lot faster by losing myself than watching someone else defeat or be defeated by some random vids on youtube.
So if me and a friend play a same character, neither of us can pick him? good to know.
Flawed solution too. What can happen is if someone is raping you with a certain character, you can pick that character instead to make them pick someone else.
Example: two Ryu’s mirror match, and Ryu #1 wins most of the matches. THey both enter the same tourney after these mirror matches, Ryu #2 knows all of the matches better then Ryu #1 besides the mirror match and goes farther in the tourney.
Someone can have a better mirror than you, but you can still be the better player if you can handle a broader range of characters and playstyles than your opponent.
OP - Quit having a scrub attitude, learn all match-ups including mirrors.
Actually, this example falls into another unrelated trap of assuming that casuals determines which player is better. It’s true that when 2 players have widely disparate skills, the better player will win out. However, when the 2 skill levels are similar, casuals likely won’t tell you anything.
Many players sandbag casuals, or at the very least don’t treat them as seriously. I can think of a number of instances where I repeatedly lost to a player in casuals and proceeded to win against that same player in the tourney, simply because I played halfheartedly in casuals and focused all my energy on winning during the tourney.
Of course, there’s also the opposite trap where tourney play is sloppier and more defensive than casual play because players are more tense but I’m pretty confident that nervousness produces a relatively minute effect compared to not trying one’s best.
There’s much more that decides who is better with a given character than whether someone can beat someone else using the same character. How effective are they with that character against the rest of the cast? Other players? Against different playstyles? Overall execution? Mind games, are often irrelevant to the character being used. There’s a ton of reasons why that statement was full-of-shit.
If I’m in a Ryu mirror match, it doesn’t matter if my opponent is better than me against Bison if I beat my mirror match opponent over and over again. I’m still a better Ryu than him if he can’t beat me.
Everything else goes out the window and doesn’t matter. Him being able to beat Bison doesn’t help him in his match against me.
Just sounds like a scrub excuse… “well, he beat me over and over again, but I’m still better than him because I’ve done X”.
Let’s go further with your example. Ryu 2 gets to the finals in the tourney but had relatively easy competition while Ryu 1 loses to Choi in the second round of the tourney after beating another top player. Who’s better?
You made the assumption that all opponents in tournaments are all the same skill level and it just doesn’t work like that.
On average, it does matter. Yes, you’re better in the one matchup versus that him and that one character. But if he does better in dozens/scores/hundreds of other matchups that you don’t do as well in, I’d say he’s the better Ryu as would others.
Didn’t realize I’d start a war here but, this guy pretty much hit it on the head why I think it’s silly. I wasn’t being all that serious everyone take a chill pill and chillax.
Tell me about it. I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this. A lot of my friends would be playing SF with me but when they saw that you could pick the same character they were like “this shit ain’t real” and now I’m forced to play online forever.
I didn’t think I had to as others already put it plainly, while you just said “Everything else goes out the window and doesn’t matter.” lol at you talking about my reasoning after you said that
